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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 18, 2025

I don't mean to be rude. I am gathering that you no longer support the PRO Act.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

I'm going to speak to Senator Bernie Sanders in the next hour about this very effort, and whether they do feel that they have proper oversight of how this is being conducted.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

The role of billionaires in politics, it's not just Musk, it's others. It's not just Republican billionaires, it is Democratic billionaires. It is the corruption of the two-party system.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

Together, we can stop Republicans from cutting Medicaid and giving tax breaks to billionaires.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an oligarchic form of society where a handful of multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy, no to…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 15, 2025

Right-wing extremism is not just an American phenomenon. It's worldwide.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 15, 2025

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy and freedom of speech from an administration that denies the 2020 election results.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 15, 2025

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 13, 2025

Better health coverage? If Canadians became US citizens they would lose their free health care.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 13, 2025

A single payer system does not mean having a lower quality system.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 13, 2025

Donald Trump is dead set on destroying public education in this country.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 13, 2025

In America, we must not allow our educational system to become a two-tier system.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

Today, Mr. Musk is worth $402 billion. (Mark) Zuckerberg is worth $252 billion. (Jeff) Bezos is worth $249 billion. With combined wealth of over $900 billion, these three people, three people, are more wealthy than the bottom half of…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

The oligarch's nightmare is that we will not allow ourselves to be divided up by race, religion, sexual orientation or religion and will together have the courage to take them on.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

The problems this country faces right now are extremely serious. The economy is rigged. Our campaign finance system is corrupt, and we are struggling to control climate change...

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

They don't want ordinary people—that's you—and democracy getting in their way.

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